Miso-Marinated Sea Bass Recipe

I love Nobu’s black cod with miso, but it’s not easy to find fresh black cod in the market, at least not in my neighborhood. So I used Chilean sea bass instead. I love Chilean sea bass–the flesh is always so moist, tender, silky, and sweet. I also love the texture and the mouth feel of Chilean sea bass…it’s absolutely perfect for this miso recipe…

As I made the sea bass with its skin on (which can be rather fishy), I added some ginger juice to the marinate to rid the potential fishy smell. I was right, the fatty skin of sea bass was fishy, so consider yourself warned if you try this sea bass recipe.

I made grilled salmon fillet with an indoor grill before, and skin-on! I love crispy fish skin but when I put it on the grill, it always tend to turn out more rubbery than crispy, and slightly fishy too. I think have to deep fry the fish to have crispy fish skin. 炸鱼皮 is a snack to nibble on too… provided it’s not fishy!

The photo is lovely, and it sounds delicious, but you may want to consider the following when choosing Chilean Sea Bass: http://tinyurl.com/4ldu66. Not trying to preach – just asking folks to make conscious, informed food choices.

Hi Bee, came across your blog while surfing for Nonya food.Wow! I sure looked at your food pictures with lust. Love the yong tow fu. I love Nonya food as my parents were of that genes, though maybe with some opium smugglers and pirate ancestors background.My wife is not a Nonya, and her Malay vocab consist of to date 12 words picked up from me, words normally associated when someone cuts across my path on the road.Noodles and food that prison inmates might appreciate she was the only SYT (sweet young thing) that invited me to try her cooking, others preferred food courts.But I guess she with her strong maternal instincts wanted tall children as I am tall. She learned from her Nonya friends to make sambal belachan Nonya style and other noted Nonya dishes that no Nonya worth her bedak sejuk can’t cook with eyes closed.Still not sure whether it was her delicious Nonya food or her beauty…but today I get to eat yong tau fu like in your beautiful pictures.Have a wonderful mothers day, best regards, Lee.

Hi Bee, I love your blog and have been making many of your special lunar new year recipes over the past weeks. They have all been delicious and my Chinese family loves them! We live in VT so the yummy soups have been keeping us warm! :) I know this chilean sea bass post is old, but I thought I would let you know that the fish, chilean sea bass, is very overfished and endangered now. I thought you might want to know. As a fellow seafood lover, I have found this site: http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/SeafoodWatch/web/sfw_factsheet.aspx?gid=11 to be very helpful in picking fish that is not in danger of becoming overfished/extinct, etc. Thanks for reading! Wishing you good luck and prosperity this year with your new cookbook! Warmly, Nina